Power in childhood and adolescence
childhood and undoubtedly the most sensitive in terms of nutrition.
E 'in this period that we are witnessing rapid changes that will affect in a decisive and often short, the future adult.
Acting in advance, helping the child to choose a healthy lifestyle and a balanced diet, may thus constitute a kind of insurance on its future.
The dietary treatment of obesity is much more effective if approached in childhood or adolescence rather than adulthood.
But above all, what most worries the parents, are the possible food shortages that you are easily exposed during growth, due to increased physiological needs.
must be taken into account during the period of growth, the child / teenager as well as the normal energy needs, which include basal metabolism and physical activity, the need for a surplus of energy due to the deposition of new tissue.
deficiencies in the subject in which growth is more easily affected are those related to calcium and iron, both important and both crucial in the possible future development of diseases (osteoporosis, anemia, etc.)..
To avoid situations of deficiency necessary to educate the child to a healthy diet as soon as possible, bearing in mind that eating habits are established early in life and that it's difficult to change them.
In the first years of life, the child will choose the food only under a rating that is based on two components: familiarity with the food and the sweet taste of it.
More specifically, Children younger than 4 years like a food based on familiarity, especially for those older than the sweet taste.
Refusal to food is "physiological" because his opposition is the game of power struggle with her mother.
The acquisition of familiarity can be obtained through repeated small samples and taste tests (even by their parents). It 'important to offer but not force. In
age approaching adolescence, but the taste will be affected by "food fads," served up to the boy by hammering advertising.
Adolescence is the period in fact can be considered where food is more unpacking and in which it is consumed in excessive amounts, snack, snacks and fast-food products.
If in some cases, the physical content of the adolescent can not be affected by such choices unpacked, in others the consequences emerge in the form of increased weight and imbalance of nutrients.
is up to the parent's role as a source of primary information to help your child to deal with the delicate steps of growth, which could affect forever.
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